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Candidate gene expression in response to low-level air pollution

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2020
Background: Epidemiological studies have linked air pollutant to adverse health effects even at low exposure levels, but limited evidence is available on its associations with gene expression levels.
Lina Madaniyazi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is humn mating adventitious or the result of lawful choice? A twin study of mate selection. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Inventory data on a large sample of middle-aged twins and their spouses confirmed that spousal pairs are consistently but weakly similar on traits of personality, interests, talents, and attitudes.
Lykken, D.T., Tellegen, A.
core  

Public Health Professionals’ Perceptions on Intertwin Relationship in Multiple‐Birth Family Nursing

open access: yesPublic Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To describe how dominance, submissiveness, and speaking role appear in the intertwin relationship between twins under 7 years old. Design and Sample A cross‐sectional study design was used. The respondents (n = 72) were nurses. Information about the intertwin relationship was explored through Likert‐scale statements and open‐ended ...
Kristiina Heinonen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speech characteristics of monozygotic twins and a same-sex sibling: an acoustic case study of coarticulation patterns in read speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This case study reports on an acoustic investigation of the motor speech characteristics of a set of young adult male monozygotic (MZ) twins and compares them to those of an age- and sex-matched sibling who participated in the study 2 years later to ...
Rixon, E., Whiteside, S.P.
core   +1 more source

Long‐term impact of stressful life events on breast cancer risk: A 36‐year genetically informed prospective study in the Finnish Twin Cohort

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, Volume 158, Issue 6, Page 1489-1497, 15 March 2026.
What's new? Breast cancer results from a combination of genetic and environmental causes, and the cumulative effect of stressful life events may be a contributing factor. Here, the authors analyzed data from cohort and twin‐pair studies including 36 years of follow‐up to find out how stressful life events affect breast cancer risk. They found that even
Elissar Azzi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Decoding Skills – Implications for Music and Reading

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Music education is associated with increased speech perception abilities and anecdotal evidence suggests musical training is also beneficial for performance in a variety of academic areas.
Tracy M. Centanni   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conjoined Parasitic Twins (Cephalo‐Thoracopagus Parasiticus) in a Free Ranging Northern Bat (Eptesicus nilssonii): A Micro‐CT Anatomic and Genetic Survey

open access: yesAnatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The detailed anatomical situation of male stillborn cephalo‐thoracopagus twins in a wild ranging northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) is described by means of full body micro‐CT scans in high resolution with three‐dimensional computational reconstruction.
J. Meyer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How are children's perceptions of the home environment associated with a general psychopathology factor across childhood?

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 266-281, February 2026.
Background Comorbidity and heterogeneity in psychiatric disorders may stem from a general psychopathology (p) factor influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Although the relative contributions of these influences on psychopathology are established, the longitudinal associations between the p‐factor and specific environmental exposures and
Jack K. Nejand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low birth weight and zygosity status is associated with defective muscle glycogen and glycogen synthase regulation in elderly twins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
  Udgivelsesdato: 2007-NovOBJECTIVE: An adverse intrauterine environment indicated by both low birth weight and monozygosity is associated with an age- or time-dependent reduction in glucose disposal and nonoxidative glucose metabolism in twins ...
Beck-Nielsen, Henning   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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